Louis Henry Zinn

Louis Henry Zinn was born November 18, 1870. This dapper gentleman was arrested by the Nazis in 1935 at the age of 65, sentenced to seven years in prison for hitting on another man. The persecution he faced drove him to suicide in Nürnberg on January 21, 1938, one of countless lives destroyed by the brutal enforcement of Paragraph 175.

Like many victims I will be documenting, almost nothing else is known about him. His existence is preserved only in scattered records—among them, the document confirming his death.